Fishing near Ipswich in Essex County, MA

Check Prices

• minnoes NO bobber
• Just good old chunk bait! Fresh Mac's.
• Calms - 26" ,and a 15"
• Clams or seaworms
• Used a rattle trap (not sure if there's another name for it. Couldn't find it listed. I'm pretty new still.) I reeled it pretty fast, pause and let it come up a bit and so on. Bass hit it hard about 12 feet from bridge, on right side under some trees.
• tip ups with shiners
• One on and a spinner, one on a swim senko
• Power Eggs
• plastic worm
• Our typical Merrimack bucket contains DAt food boilies, chick peas as well as a bread crumb/anise/oats/ferret food ground bait.

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Clams
• Mackerel
• Sea worms on flounder hook with yellow bead.
• Live mackerel
• Sea worm
• Mackerel on a baitrunner.
• fishing bottom with hand dug worms
• Fresh live mackeral
• A "well seasoned" dead shiner, sent to the bottom.
• A "well seasoned" dead Shiner, sent to the bottom.

Tube Check Prices

• Tube and huge sea worms
• 1/4oz white tube jig/ watermelon and and red flake 1/4oz tube jig
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.
• T-rigged Pearl Damiki Hydra
  White Ice Zoom Small tube
  White Super Fluke Jr drop-shot

Creature Check Prices

• Creature Bait on Shakey Head
• 1lb 10oz was my best on the day, with a couple 1lbers too
• My other 5 were:
  2lb 2oz
  two 1-1/2lbers
  two 1lbers
• Green pumpkin sweet beaver
• Mixed it up every half hour, the Hog was caught on a pumpkin creature with black flake, but both the black with red flake and watermelon with black flake were effective.
• Orange Pumpkin Yama creature... my go-to soft plastic
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• Jigs, Shakyheads with worms or jig trailers, creature baits

Minnow Check Prices

• hooked through back on tipup
• Used primarily live bait, crawlers and shiners. Creatures work well for bass as well.
• A Couple 2-1/4lbers
  Ten 2lbers
  A Couple 1-3/4lbers
  The rest between 1-1/2lbs and 1lb
• 1st was 1lb 4oz
  2nd was 10in
• 1st was 25in 3lb 2oz
  2nd was 15in
• 1st ever Ice Bass was 1lb-1/4lb, and 2nd was 1lb 10oz
• Couple 2lbers, 1-3/4lbers, and 1-1/2lbers
• 1st was 3lb 6oz
  2nd was about 1lb
• 2lb 9oz
  1-1/2lbs
  3-3/4lbs
• One 2lber
  Two 1-3/4lbers
  Two 1-1/2lbers
  Five between 1-1/4lbs - 1lbs

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Xcalibur jimmy
• Bone Zara spook
• MS Slammer hitch
• Jitterbug
• Black buzzbait with a black blade
• FROG
• Frog...we also caught em on the jig here too
• Rapala original floater #7 bleeding lip firetiger
• 3 on Hulla popper and 2 on senko worms
• Zara spook and jitterbug

Lizard Check Prices

• Baby bass lizard
• hit while sinking
• YUM 6" Chartreuse Lizard
• green w/ red fleck
• Zoom Lizards and creature baits. Texas rigged or on a shaky head jig.
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• 8" & 10" Largemouth
• 4.5in Slug-Go
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4" Senko in pumpkinseed, and Zoom Fluke in Baby Bass.

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Joes fly

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• Dark Colors
• Giant white double bladed buzzbait
• See photo - chartreuse 3" Mr. Twister trailer.
• Fire Tiger, Double Willow
• 2lb 2oz, and two 1-3/4lbers on a spinner bait
  1-1/2lber on a craw
• White, double silver blade
• Chartuese w/ Green
• 1/2 ounce black double bladed buzz bait
• same as before
• Chartreuse spinnah

Frog Bait Check Prices

• 10" on Senko, 1/2lb and 3/4lb on Rage Frog
• caught 2 with Yamamoto 5" Senko's and one with frog.

Casting & Trolling Spoon Check Prices

Stick Bait Check Prices

• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 12-1/2in 1Lb
  2nd was 14in 1-1/4lbs
  3rd was 8in

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• 1/8oz Rooster Tail
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail - Brown Metallic
• silver 1/16 oz single hook rooster tail
• 1st. 12in 12oz
  2nd. 11.5in 10oz
  3rd. 11.5in 9oz
• 1st. 7in
  2nd. 7 3/4in
• Smaller bass on a 4" rubber worm
  Lunker on a red inline spinner
• rooster tail
• 1st. 5in
  2nd. 10in 8oz
• 1/6oz Rooster Tail

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

• Non-Keeper
• Sabiki rig, white
• shad darts
• Giant swedish pimple

Nymph Check Prices

• Gold bead head Prince black

Worm Check Prices

• 5 inch dinger
• Shakey Head
• Shakey Head
  1st was 1lb 5oz
  2nd was 1lb
• I caught a 1-1/4lb and a 2-1/4lb Largemouth
• char. color senko
• Gulp red "bloodworms"
• yamamoto senkos texas rigged or wacky
• Tried Yums And Yamamotos...
  White/Gray,Purple/Black,Tan/Brown,BladeDancer...Finally, old faithful,Watermelon 7"...
• Texas Rigged Weightless.. Deadly when thrown into cover or into structure.
• Classic Texas Rig

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad

Hard Baits Check Prices

• We each caught 5 Keepers each.
  Best 5 were of Chuck's 4lber, 3lber, 2-3/4lber, and My 4lber, and 1-3/4lber.
  
  I also had three 1-1/4lbers
• Topwater, Spinnerbait, Swimbait
• My Biggest 2lb 13oz, followed by a couple 1-1/2lber, a couple 1lbers, and the rest were runts. Mostly shallow cranks, some jig, and senko too.

Soft Baits Check Prices

• 1 on a baby bass colored lizard and another on a baby bass colored senko
• Zoom Lizard Chartruese Watermelon
• Dropshot - All between 5 and 7 inches - Nice spot for calicos, too bad I was in a Bass tourney, dohhh!
• 10", 12" & 1-1/4lb Bass on Senko
  3/4lb on Rage Frog

Craw Check Prices

• Yum black/blue craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• Strike King Rage Tail Rage Craw. June Bug Blue.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Rooster tail
• Neon yellow Rooster Tail with an orange blade
• Spinnerbait
• 6/30 on Rooster Tail
  7/22 on Rapala Original Minnow #5
• Rooster Tail
• Copper/Silver 2-way spinner and a Shiner.
• Bronze 2-Way Spinner and a trout worm.
  
  Copper/Silver 2-Way Spinner and a Shiner.
• Just a Strike King 5 inch red and yellow spinner bait

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• trolled it behind the canoe as I paddeled.
• Trolled behind canoe while paddling. Rapala jointed minnow fire-tiger pattern.
• repala 2 1/2" frog countdown
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• SPRO BBZ1

Jigs Check Prices

• 7lber, 5lber, and a couple shorties
• Jig/Teaser - 20" and a 15"
• silver,green skirt
• Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• #3 crank bait dark colored
• dark colored with red
  Strike king #3
• and senkos too
• reaction strike jerk in perch
• smokey joe lipless crank, and pumpkin senko
• Squarebill
• Strike King 2.5 sexy shad,Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb
• Strike King sexy shad 2.5
• Shiners are cheating here...
  Have to use your shallow swimmer crank bait.
• Silver shad crank

Bass Jig Check Prices

• bucky's/sluggos/worms
• Brown jig with a black n blue trailer. Chigger craw
• 1st was 1lb 6oz
  2nd was 1-1/4lb
  3rd was 1-3/4lb
• All my Fish were caught on a 1/2oz Black/Blue Jig
  
  1st was 2lb 10oz
  2nd was 1lb 7oz
  3rd was 1lb
• Black n blue jig n pig
• Bass Jig, plastic worm, jerk bait, Rat-L-Trap, swim bait
• 3/8 ounce green pumpkin Boag Hog Baits jig that I added rattles to and a black/redflake chigger craw trailer
• same jig as before
• Boag Hog Brush Jig

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• Zoom Super Fluke in Disco Violet

Wet Fly Check Prices

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• I was chucking a copper colored Thomas spoon
• 1/8 ounce gold Phoebe

Herring Check Prices

• chunks
• Herring Chunk

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Worm on a hook with a bober, a classic.
• on tipups shallow as heck
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom... and another surprise to pull this guy off the bottom.
• Sent to the bottom, as far into the drop off as I could cast.
• Silver 2-way spinner hook.
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. Since Pickerel don't usually bottom feed, and didn't hit on the retrieve, I was a bit surprised...
• Silver 2-Way Spinner Hook.
  
  Off the bottom. To be expected with Catfish.
• Neon Yellow 2-way spinner hook.
• Sent to the bottom.

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• Srike King 3/4 oz red eyed shad,gold black back.7' mojo bass -st.croix crank rod with Seaguar InvizX Fluorocarbon 10lb.Stop and rip out of surmerged grass.
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Clams
• Calms - 25" and a 18"
• Calms
• Calms - 20" and a 8"or 9"
• Calms - All Between 10"-12"
• Calms - One was about 17", and the Big one was about 30" around 8 or 9 pounds
• Clams
  1st was 25"
  2nd was 20"
• chunked herrin
• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• swedish pimp

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!

Blade Bait Check Prices

• Daredevil
• chartruce and whit chatter bait
• Gold PK Lure PK Flutter Fish. Awesome lure.

Grub Check Prices

• gub on worm hook
• Dropshot

Live Baits Check Prices

• Sea Worms
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Seaworms

Other Check Prices

• clams
• clam
• Clam
• Bread
• Maple-Banana Maize
  Pescaviva sweet corn
  Chicks
  Dat Food Boilies Scopex
  
• shiners, p-bait, worms, small spinners,spoons u name it
• clams for bait, catching doubles all day
• Senkos, jitterbug, and KVD 1.5 sunfish color.
• Hooks baited with clams above a 1lb weight.
• again oatmeal